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1 Navigating the Deep High Accuracy Positioning Support for Deep Water Construction by Will Primavesi, Tamir Frydenrych, and Drew Nicholson ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/CHERT61 The Journal of Ocean Technology, Vol. 12, No. 3,
2 Introduction As the production of offshore oil and gas moves into ever increasing water depths, the installation of seabed wellheads and production plant calls for highly advanced underwater acoustic positioning systems that not only ensure their correct placement on the seabed but also provide detailed spatial information upon which engineers can design and prefabricate fixed connectors, known as jumpers, confident in the knowledge that they will fit when installed subsea. During the last quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017, such systems were used to support the ongoing development of the Tamar Gas field which is located in the eastern Mediterranean in a water depth of approximately 1,700 metres. The Tamar field is operated by Noble Energy, which contracted Marteam Limited of Israel and Interocean Marine Services Limited of Aberdeen to develop the methods, select the equipment and conduct operations to support the positioning of a new wellhead together with subsea metrology measurements to determine the size of the jumper that would connect the new wellhead to an existing pipeline Flow Line End Termination (FLET) unit. The work was conducted from the offshore support vessel Nordic Prince which was on charter to Noble Energy. This essay provides an overview of the challenges that were faced by the survey team and the solutions that were used to ensure a successful end result. Tamar Gas Field The Tamar field is located 50 nautical miles west of Haifa, Israel, in a water depth of approximately 1,675 metres. The field consists of an offshore processing platform, which is closer to shore in a water depth of approximately 237 metres, and a number of wellheads in the deeper water that are connected to the platform via subsea pipelines. The distance from the platform to the deep water wells is approximately 150 kilometres. As a further development of the field, the Tamar #8 well was to be drilled close to an existing wellhead and then connected to the nearby FLET. The rigid steel jumper connecting the new wellhead to the FLET would be fabricated onshore from steel and would be approximately 30 m in length and approximately 21 tons in weight. Figure 1: Tamar #8 wellhead as installed on the seabed (the structure above the wellhead is the blow out preventer deployed by the drillship Atwood Advantage that was present during the metrology campaign). 14 The Journal of Ocean Technology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2017
3 Deep Water Positioning Challenge Noble Energy required two phases of subsea positioning support for the development and connection of the new well which were as follows: Deployment of seabed markers that would delineate the footprint of the new Tamar #8 wellhead (Figure 1), with a positioning accuracy relative to the existing seabed structures of +/-0.5 m. The markers would then be used by the drillship Atwood Advantage during the start of the drilling process or spudding. Determination of the three dimensional spatial relationship between the jumper connector (or hub) on the new wellhead and the jumper hub on the FLET assembly to an accuracy of +/-0.1 m, such that the connecting jumper could be fabricated onshore and later installed subsea. As well as the horizontal and vertical distances between the two hubs, the pitch and roll of each hub was required and also the relative heading of each hub, which was all information that would be required during the fabrication of the jumper onshore. The accuracy of the data was critical in ensuring that the jumper would fit when installed offshore. The high accuracy DGNSS (Differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems) positioning solutions available to the offshore surveyor are not applicable subsea, so an underwater acoustic system was required to achieve the above objectives. Acoustic positioning systems have been developing over the last 50 years and are now categorized by two key features. All systems rely on the measurement of ranges between transducers and transponders using digital processing techniques to determine the time of flight of sonar pulses and hence distance. The first and perhaps most commonly used type is the Ultra Short Base Line (USBL) configuration. This system computes the position of a transponder mounted on, for example, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), in terms of range and bearing from a transducer mounted on the mother vessel. The transducer on the vessel consists of an array of transmit and receive elements in close proximity with a separation of 10 centimetres, hence the term ultra short baseline. The positioning accuracy of such a system is expressed in angular terms and is generally around 0.1 to 0.3. In water depths of 1,700 m, these angles subtend distances of greater than 3 m, thus precluding the system for this application. The second type of acoustic positioning method is the Long Base Line (LBL) solution. The system comprises transponders placed on the seabed which are used as sonar ranging stations to establish positions of ROVs or structures by trilateration. The distances between the transponders can be up to a few hundred metres, hence the term Long Base Line. With the positioning system based locally on the seabed, ranging accuracies at the centimetre level can now be achieved. For this project, Sonardyne s 6G LBL system was selected (Figure 2). The 6G suite uses digital wideband sonar transmissions to achieve range measurement accuracies at the millimetre level (given an accurate measurement of the speed of sound in water), thus providing sufficient precision to achieve Noble Energy s objectives. The 6G solution also includes a specialized ROV based communication unit called ROVNAV which allows the survey team on the vessel to communicate with the array using the ROV s umbilical, thus avoiding reliance on acoustic communications through the entire water column. Project Planning The successful use of the Sonardyne 6G system requires meticulous planning, covering all aspects of the operation including shipment, deployment, interfacing, calibrations, observations, computations and quality control. The following bullets provide some of the elements that were considered for the project: When using the Sonardyne transponders, or Compatts (COMPuting And Telemetering Transponder) on the seabed, the shape and extent of the array of The Journal of Ocean Technology, Vol. 12, No. 3,
4 Figure 2: Sonardyne s acoustic transponders (left) being tested on the deck of the Nordic Prince and Sonardyne s ROVNAV unit (right, red) installed on the work class ROV on board the Nordic Prince. transponders has to be considered to ensure that there is line of sight between each unit and also to ensure that the required positioning accuracy can be achieved. Compatts were placed in flotation collars on three of the existing structures (the FLET, the Tamar #3 well and also an umbilical termination unit), such that the positioning array could be set relative to the structures. A further three Compatts were also placed on the seabed. A work class ROV operated by Delta Subsea was used to deploy the Compatts and also the seabed markers. In order to avoid multiple ROV transits between the vessel at the surface and the work site some 1,700 m below, a work basket was used to carry all the Compatts to the seabed, the loading of which had to be planned to ensure all the Compatts could be fitted in the basket and that the ROV could remove them all successfully when at depth (Figure 3). 16 The Journal of Ocean Technology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2017 The use of the survey sensors on the ROV required a number of brackets to be fabricated that would allow safe installation and interfacing of the sensors on the ROV. The data from the sensors had to be interfaced to the survey data multiplexors and power sources such that it could be relayed to the surface using the ROV s fibre-optic umbilical. For the metrology element of the works once the Tamar #8 well had been installed, a specialized version of the Sonardyne Compatt that incorporates a high accuracy pitch and roll sensor or inclinometer was to be used to establish the pitch and roll of each hub as well as the distance between them. In order to allow the measurements to be related to the vertical axis of the hubs on each structure, a bracket had to be designed that would allow the Compatt to be located exactly on and parallel to the central axis of the hub using an existing receptacle within the hub cap.
5 Figure 3: The ROV s manipulator disconnecting the vessel crane from the work basket in preparation for removal and placement of the Compatts and markers in a water depth of 1,667.5 m. The in-water visibility at such depths was excellent. Using the known dimensions of the hub cap receptacle on the wellhead and on the FLET, stab brackets were designed and fabricated that would allow the inclinometer Compatt to be located on the hub cap (Figure 4). For the measurement of the attitude of each structure, an Octans 3000 high accuracy subsea gyrocompass was provided and installed on the ROV such that heading measurements of the wellhead and FLET could be recorded. The accuracy of the Octans 3000 in terms of heading is quoted by its manufacturer ixblue as 0.1 Secant Latitude. For the relative depths of the two structures, a Valeport Mini-IPS digiquartz depth sensor was used. The LBL acoustic transponders and the Octans subsea gyrocompass are both considered dual-use items by multilateral export control regimes. A dual-use item is one that can be used for civilian applications but also for military purposes. The shipping of the positioning spreads from the United Kingdom to the mobilization port in Cyprus and back again therefore required meticulous preparation in terms of paperwork and declarations. This involved support from Noble Energy in the USA, Interocean in the UK, Marteam in Israel and various shipping agencies in Cyprus. Operations The offshore positioning campaign was conducted in two phases. The seabed markers for the Tamar #8 well were installed in September 2016 and the metrology observations were conducted in February The Tamar #8 well was drilled by the Atwood Advantage between October 2016 and January For the installation of the markers, the Compatt array was deployed by the ROV, with three Compatts on existing structures to provide known coordinates and three on the seabed. Once the Compatts were in place, the array was calibrated (Figure 5). The first step of the calibration was to observe the speed of sound in water at the depth of operation. This was achieved using a Valeport sound velocity probe that uses digital time of flight technology to provide velocity data to an accuracy of 0.02 m/s. The Journal of Ocean Technology, Vol. 12, No. 3,
6 Figure 4: The stab brackets used to dock the inclinometer Compatt with the Tamar #8 well hub, on the work shop bench, mated with the Compatt on the back deck of Nordic Prince, and stabbed into the wellhead hub pressure cap at 1,675.5 m below surface. 18 The Journal of Ocean Technology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2017
7 The next step of the calibration was to observe a series of ranges between all of the Compatts in the array such that the relative spatial relationship between the Compatts could be established. During the calibration, 60 ranges were observed between each Compatt. The maximum standard deviation of the ranges was m, with the standard deviation generally being at the 1 or 2 mm level. The ranges were then used in conjunction with the known coordinates of the Compatts on the existing structures to perform a least squares adjustment of the array network to determine the final station coordinates, with the final array Route Mean Square of the adjustment being m. Once the array coordinates were confirmed, the ROVNAV unit on the ROV was used to navigate the ROV to the intended wellhead position and to position the Figure 5: Tamar #8 Compatt array calibration diagram showing the range observations. four markers around the intended wellhead position (Figure 6). Once each marker was in place, an average position fix of 60 samples was recorded. The average coordinate standard deviation was less than 3 cm while the average Route Mean Square (RMS) value for the range residuals was less than 2 cm, showing a highly accurate relative position fix. The second phase of the works, the metrology observations, were conducted in February Inclinometer Compatts were installed on the two hub caps and four standard Compatts were installed in small tripods around the jumper route to provide a geometrically stable network adjustment. One of the standard Compatts was placed on the existing Tamar #3 well to allow a more accurate final position fix of the new Tamar #8 well relative to Tamar #3 and the FLET to be taken as a by-product of the metrology process. A similar calibration technique was used to adjust the array, but with no coordinates being held fixed. In order to maximize the accuracy of the pitch and roll readings at each hub, the inclinometer Compatts were first set up with the forward line pointing towards structure north on each Figure 6: Tamar #8 wellhead marker buoys deployed on the seabed. The Journal of Ocean Technology, Vol. 12, No. 3,
8 Figure 7: Digiquartz depth sensor in its ROV friendly bracket, located on the Flow Line End Termination (FLET) hub during depth observations. Figure 8: The final as-built Tamar #8 jumper, ready for load out in Haifa. 20 The Journal of Ocean Technology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2017
9 structure and then rotated through 90 steps with pitch, roll and acoustic range data being recorded at each step. The recording of pitch and roll data on reciprocal pointings was used to eliminate any residual alignment errors while the recording of five sets of acoustic ranges between all Compatts established a high confidence level in the horizontal distance between the two hubs. In order to establish the vertical distances between the hubs, a digiquartz depth sensor was used to observe accurate depths at each hub and also at each of the Compatts (Figure 7). The depth surveys were started and stopped at the same station, to allow a Bowditch adjustment to be performed on the depth data similar to that applied to land based level surveys. Application of the Results The final results of the metrology survey were presented to Noble Energy on completion of the subsea campaign. The surveyors then proceeded to Haifa to assist with the dimensional control of the fabrication of the jumper, ensuring that the as-built shape of the spool matched the configuration dictated by the metrology results. High accuracy Leica Total Stations were used to establish a local network around the fabrication site and to position the various elements of the jumper (Figure 8). Conclusion The positioning and metrology requirements for the Tamar #8 well development presented several challenges for the survey team that included complex logistics, ultra deep water operations, high accuracy subsea spatial measurements and detailed 3-dimensional computations. The project proved a success due to the close and open working relationship that was established between Noble Energy, Marteam, Interocean, Oceanfix, Delta Subsea and other contractors involved on the project. The ultimate conclusion to the overall campaign was provided by Noble Energy when, on April 5, 2017, it reported that the jumper had been installed at the seabed and that it had fit like a glove. u Will Primavesi is a hydrographic surveyor with over 30 years experience in the offshore subsea industry. After working at sea on a global basis for 10 years, Mr. Primavesi has held various shore-based positions ranging from Area Surveyor to Chief Surveyor to Survey Business Manager, based in the UK and also in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. He is currently the Survey Operations Manager for Interocean Marine Services in Aberdeen, Scotland. He holds a degree in Nautical Studies, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, and served as chairman of the Survey Division of the International Marine Contractors Association for six years. Tamir Frydenrych, Technical Manager for Marteam Ltd., is a hydrographic and subsea construction project manager with over 25 years experience in multidiscipline projects. Starting his career in the early 1990s as master of a hydrographic survey craft and also hydrographic surveyor, he then moved to construction operations as a tugboat master and diver and after 10 years moved to ROV piloting. In the last 12 years, Mr. Frydenrych has been the Technical Manager for two major marine companies in Cyprus and Israel, providing services including hydrographic survey, search and recovery, and shallow subsea construction. He is also responsible for business development in these fields. Drew Nicholson has over 26 years experience working on subsea installation projects in various locations including the Gulf of Mexico, Trinidad, Ecuador, the North Sea, Israel, and Egypt. After working offshore as a construction diver in the oil and gas industry for 11 years, Mr. Nicholson held various shorebased positions including Estimator, Project Manager, Proposals Manager, and Commercial Director. He is currently a Project Manager (PMP) with EXP Engineering International, LLC working on behalf of Noble Energy. The Journal of Ocean Technology, Vol. 12, No. 3,
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